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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Liljegren is awful. He is a soon to be 25 year old Oesterle. I suspect at 50% retained Tanev is worth at least the 1st, when you throw in Samsonov as a cap dump who is not worth anything to the Flames as he is a UFA they will not sign and if you assume it is a 2nd rounder to get out of that contract that is a pretty awful deal. You can take Markstrom out of that deal and add the Vancouver 4th or 3rd and you would have a deal
Knies
Samsonov
2024 1st
Tanev (50% retained)
Vancouver 4th/3rd
Liljegren could be included but he has almost no value, maybe a 3rd.
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I really disagree with this. He's an analytics darling, and all models point to him being very good at actually defending. He was vanilla in the games I watched, but he wasn't making any glaring mistakes either.
I think a team could view Liljergren like Washington viewed Sandin last year. He was traded for a 2023 1st and a good roster player(Gustafsson).
I actually see Liljergren becoming a good defenseman similar to Hanifin, jack of all trades, master of none. I'm not saying he's Hanifin, but I could expect the level of play we saw from Hanifin when we got him from CAR.